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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-22
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W!LDER'S STEAMSHIP CO.,
Limited.
STEAMER KINAU,

'A'oi c""e'''
caves Honolulu ~ per following schedule,
touching, at L:thaina, Maasaea, Makcna, MANU-
;Ona Kavy aIbae i.aupenOehoe. Hno and AeSuhou:
Commencing on MONDA Y, July 20, 1886, and
On every alternate Monday al p. m, the klEau
.vIil make the VOLCAN NO TRIP, reaching Keau-
hou on Wednesday morning, where horses and
carriages are in waiting To convey passengers to
the VOLCANO HOUSE give miles in the saddle
md nine miles by carriageJ.
Passengers by this route will have two days
md two nights at tho VOLCANO HOUSE.
TICKETS FOR THE ROUND TRIP TO III
VOLCANO, FIFTY DOLLA RS, WHICH PA Us
ALI. OH 4 RC5TtS.
The Kinau will arrive in Honolulu Sunday
mornings on Volcano trips On Hilo trips vii
cave Honolulu on Tuesdays, and return saturday
morning
PASSENGER TRAINS will connect with the
Xinau al MahukOna
The Kinau WILL TOUCH at HOnOkaia and
Paauhau on down trips from Hilo for Passengers
f IL signal is made from the shore.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-22
TfIt wasn't for the Atmosphere.

Prof Langley's recent researches have
led him to conclusions which imply that
in the absence of the absorbing atmes-
phere, the earth would receive suff1clent
heat from the sun TO melt an 1ce-sneI
aboI1t $50 feet deep over the globes entire
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-22
New residence of King Theebaw

Arcet. the new residence of King Thee
baw. is a small walled native city OF
10000 inhabitants, situated sixty-three
miles from Madras, on the line of railroad
to Beypere. Tt possesses some gooa
roosones and tombs. with the remains OF
. rI,ined Dalace and fort.-Exchange.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-22
DANCER from Too Much ouininc.

The constant use of quinine means to a
great many dizziness, deafness and Palpi-
tation of the heart. Patients of mine
after giving up the use of the drug. have
completely recovered from all the symp
toms mentioned-Dr. George w. Hail
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-22
STEAMER MOKOLu,
iMcGregnr, COmmanderl,

,McGreg0r, COmmander),
Leaves for the following ports every alternate
Monday at p.
Commencing August ITO Lanai, Kamalo, Pu-
700, I.ahaina, Olowalu. Returning TO Lahaina,
PuI<oc, KamalO. Lanai arriving at Honolulu Sat
friday morning.
Com .npncing August $40 Kaurakakai. Kama
o. Pukoc. H:tIaNya, WailaU, PCleK uiiu, Kalaupapa
Returning to PukOO, Laflaina, Ol0walu, LaEaina,
i'nkoo, KamaIO, Kaunakakai, arriving at Homo
lulu Saturday morning.
re- The Company wiz not be responsible Tor
any freight packages unless roceipted for, nor
for personal baggage unless plainly marked. Not
barge of the PurSer.
All possible care will he taken of Live Stock, but
she Company viii not assume any risk of accident.
SAML &. WILDER, President.
:. B. ROSE, Secretary.
OFFICE-Corner Fort and queen streets.
55-1y Mar 30
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-22
Half a Million ian Pensions

A kindIin2- wood factory at Mount Tom
1fags.. turns out 10. 600 bundles day.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-22

The death of the second Lord Brougham.
at the extreme age of 81 will relieve the
pension list of considerable charge. He
was formerly master in chancery, and
when the Office was abolished in 1852, was
compensated by a full pension for life.
This was 93, 225 a year, so that the total
amount paid to him by the country has
been e163, 200 Decidedly we pay deaI
sometimes for our passion for cOmpensa
satiou Pail Mall Gazette
A South African Bug.
One of the natural freaks or south
Africa is a bug which on being touched
.nits a Derfume and two or three of which
carried in wagon will scent it delight
fully for weeks.-Exchange
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-18
Tobogcaning in Canada.

said a Canadian TO a scribe recently
" Tobogganing is essentially Canadian
sport. Not because Canada is the land Of
winter SHOWS. but because Canadian life,
Canadian manners are not the manners Of
the states You may say all you please
about our slowness, our want of enter
prise; that we out-Englsh the English in
our snobbishness: still, the fact remains
that we manage TO get great deal Of en-
joyment out Of life OF course q great
deal is said about the fast life Of Ameri-
cans; but believe with the majority the
trouble lies more in the long hours Of
work in which you indulge. can't see
where the rapid life comes in, unless it be
the slow, steady grind for 800 day in the
year. Now, tobogganing, like a great
many other of our sports, cannot be
taken up at odd hours. To thoroughly
enjoy a tobogganing party one should
have the whole afternoon and evening;
and when you get into bed at night you
feel rs IL you had really been doing some
thing worth talking about. The average
Canadian works, as q rule, about half the
day. The remainder is pretty well taken
up with sports Of some kind or another,
especially In winter.-BuffalO Express.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-18
The Washington Family's Wine.

The Washingtons drank wine at their
dinners, and the collection Of Washing
toms household effects in the National
museum in Washington shows that the
family possessed much aesthetic taste.
Their china contained many choice bits.
In the collection there is an immense
punch bowl and several wine services, and
the chaplain Of congress the time Wash
ington was president records a presidential
dinner at which he says that Gen. Wash
lngton had silver pint cup Of beer at his
plate, which he drank while eating. The
Washington family had much fine wine in
their cellars at Mount Vernon; but though
Washington drank glass or so Of Ma
deira at his meals, there is no record Of his
ever having drunk too much. That
Martha Washington appreciated the value
Of good wine is evidenced by her will. In
II she gives pipe Of wine TO George
Washington Parke Custis, and directs
that all the wine bottles in the Mount
Vernon vaults be equally divided between
her granddaughters and grandson.-Frank
G. Carpenter.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-18
Oldest Cremationists on Earth.

alaskan Indians are perhaps the Oldest
race of crenatioHists on the face of the
earth All their dead, except their medi-
cine men. are burned. The crematory Is
very simple, yet nevertheless, effective.
When a corpse is to be ecremated, II is first
removed from the house through the hole
in the roof, or through an aperture made
in one Of the walls by removing log. dt
is bad luck TO carry il ont through the
door and carried TO a funeral pyre OF
wood built in the form Of hollow rect
angle, measuring four feet long, four feet
wide, and from three TO six feet in depth.
The corpse is bundled into the pyre, which
is then lighted. Dry cord wood is then
thrown in on top of the corpse until the
opening is filed. The relatives sit around
the burning pile four or five hours until
everything is consumed. The cremation
is always complete. The ashes Of the
dead man. and Of course more or less
wood ashes, are gathered up, placed in a
wooden box and carried 10 little grave
house, as IL is called. Lieut.. II. T.
Monahan in Brooklyn Eagle.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-18
The Mansoleum at Frogmore.

The mausoleum at FroVmore is built on
very low ground, and suffers much from
damp. The magnificent internal decora-
tions would have long ago been spoiled II
large fires were not constantly kept burn
ing. The queen obtained the original idea
for this structure from the Greek chapel
on the Neroberg, below Wiesbaden, In
which the first wife Of the present Duke
OF Nassau is buried. She was the Grand
Duchess Elizabeth Michaeloyna Of Rus
sia. and died In 1874, in her 10Th year,
eleven months after her marriage. Her
monument is splendid piece Of sculpture,
and as at Frogmore, there Is n recum-
bent figure on the sarcophagus. This Is
the most sumptuous tomb in Germany.
The queen caused crypt 10 be formed
under the mausoleum, desiring that all
her children should be buried in IL, and
there are nine inches; but Princess Alice
lies in the Rosenhohe chapel near Darn
stadt, and the Duke Of Albany left writ
ten directions that he was 10 be buried In
the royal vault at Windsor. York
Home Journal.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-18
Theodore rilton's Conterted Life.

Mr.. Tilton Is passing now, he tells his
friends, the most peaceful and contented
years Of his life. It is three years since
he domiciled himself in Paris, and he will
probably end his days there. He has a
floor in grand old mansion, once the
home of the Dues de Nemours, an ancient
building on the lie de Paris, back Of Notre
Dame, in the very heart of historic asso-
Citations. Here he spends much of his time,
writing, reading, living happily within
himself. For the rest, he Is free TO dine
wherever his vagr'ant fancy dictates, TO
find companionship wherever he chooses.
Most often he is 10 be met late afternoons
at the Cafe Regence, one OF the very few
OF the famous pre-reyolution resorts which
the Haussmannization Of the right bank
Of the Seine has left intact. Here for a
century and more have the best chess
players of Paris assembled. Alfred de
Musset was a habitue, and many OF the
older men remember him well.
A far more distinguished frequenter OF
the Regence-whom few enough OF the
company can recall having seen even in
his later life-was a certain keen eyed,
aquiline nosed young lieutenant OF artil-
lery, NJ. Napoleon Bonaparte. \ little
metal tablet is set into the dark marble OF
one of the tables recording that here the
future emperor was wont TO sit and school
his mind for Marengo and Austerlitz in
the mazes of chess. Ifancy that no dreams
Of fame or Of especial achievement come
now 10 Mr.. Tilton. The work upon which
he is engaged is understood to be ephem-
eral in character-done as much for the
sake Of occupation and mental relief as
anything else. His chief interest is to like
his life and to keep it smooth. uneventful,
restful, within the compass Of simple de-
sires and pleasant associations.-New
York Times,
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-18
Ape,.u, Eryp,,.n Gold Plate.

The only piece Of gold plate ever found
In Egypt now on its way 10 the Museum
OF Fine Arts, Is the massive handle to n
tray used in the royal service OF Pharaoh
Hophra, at the biblical Tahpanhes Uere-
miah &. b, TO which place came jeremiah,
who doubtless here wrote his "Lamenta-
tions," with the fugitive princesses Of Ju.
dab. The plate is among the gifts Of the
Egypt exploration fund, which disclosed
this most interesting sight where Nebu.
chadnezzar burned the palace or castle be-
cause Hophra had received the fugitives.
Home journal.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-18
Scene During the Goa, strike.


Our way led through the car yards that
have taken possession Of the whole OF the
old point. where the first ferry from New
Amsterdam TO Jersey used to land you, in
the days when Peter Stuyyesant ruled
Manhattan island for the Dutch West In
dia company. IL was a heavy day. The
clouds hung low and gloomy, and a sharp
wind pierced the stoutest overcoat Banks
OF fog hung in and out over the car tracks
from the bay, and trains rushed out OF
them with sudden and dreadful nnexpect-
edness Ii was dangerous trip to make
on foot with clear head and nothing TO
do but look out for the locomotive
But the tangle Of tracks fairly swarmed
with women and children. plodding TO and
fro. bent double over the icy ground.
Each carried basket of some sort and
cast into IL Jumps OF coal dropped from
the fire pans OF the engines They were
miserably clad and dripping wet. They
Rugged themselves shudderingly as they
crawled about, and the trains came and
went with furious roarings and funeral
clanginCs OF bells l am happy tO remem-
Der that the bells rang no requiem for
these pitiful cleaners Of a stony harvest
while our journey lasted.
When we came back TO New York and
strolled up along the .wharves we con-
stantly met men and women and boys and
girls burdened with bundles Of waste wood
and rotten timber picked up on the piers
or fished out Of the docks. At several
places where buildings we're torn down
they grubbed and fought for plaster
patched laths and broken planks and
beams among the ruins of the tumbling
walls.
Little children staggered under burdens
heavier than themselves, aud wan women
and haggard men went halting on with
ponderous loads, destined TO feed the
meager family fire and cook the scanty
meal.-Alfred Trumble In New York
News.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-18
Not n CreditabIe Record,

Indian School Superintendent John B.
Riley says quietly in his annual report
that at is not credltable to us as a nation
that 80 much money should he used 10
keep the Indian in subsection while SO
little is expended TO improve his condi.
ton" The figures Of the last fiscal year
are, in round numbers, Sli0OO000 for
warning against the red man and 90 600.
900 maintaining, civilizing and educating
him. New York Graphic.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-18
Few Wolves I'm Prus.i..

There are very few wolves in Prussia,
only four having been killed, and II is o
curious fact that the German wolves
seem TO have followed the German army
almost en- mnsse into France during the
winter Of 1870, and 10 have remained
there. In the provinces OF Alsace and
Lorraine the number OF wolves killed dur
llg tie year was thirty seven, In addition
- eco .oxes and i52 wildcats. London
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-18

All the vertebrate animals are eaten
somewhere ON the globe. In the Anda-
man islands the eating Of a live rat IL
made the test Of manhood, and no man Is
permitted TO marry until he has accom-
pllshed this feat
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-10

Mrs. Lesley, in her Published rec
objections of her mother, Mrs. Ly-
man, gives this instance of the elder
ladys ingenuity and kindness: A
death had occurred in an Irish fam
lily. Everybody crowded to see the
body, and there was danger that the
living might suffer from their dem
onstrations of regard for the dead.
But the mourners we're sensitive,
and to suggest disiniectants would
have given mortal offenso. Mrs. Ly-
man sent over y plate OF chloride OF
lime, covered with flowers, to be
placed on the coffin. Every one was
pleased aud grateful. No one sus
pected the sanitary purpose. That
woman was wise enough to vote. Hall
the art of a statesman consists in the
power to make wholesome measures
palatable, and to cover necessary re-
forms with flowers which shall make
them acceptable without destroying
their efficiency,
ALTCk STONE BLACKWELL.
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THE JEWISH LA W
And the Restoration In the Year Of
Jubilee.

american Israelite: In an inter
estiug article entitled "Three Ways
of Living" by Mr.. John Poison, in
the Paisley Gazette of the. 18th, the
following reference was made to the
Land Legislation of the Bible: as to
primogeniture, it has high sanction
so, indeed, has entail. BY the
Mosaic law both were established.
The 100000 adult males, who it is
estimated, entered Canaan, had the
land divided among them by lot,
which gave it is computed, about
sixteen to twenty-five acres to each.
This was the patrimony Of each
family, and it was by the institution
of primogeniture aud the jubilee
was made inalienable, although it
was not certain that the provisions of
the jubilee ordnance we're ever OBJ.
served, certainly they we're not up to
the time of the Babylonian captiv-
ity. by the law of primogeniture,
the eldest son, or if there
were no sons, the eldest
daughter, and if dead, the eldest
child of such son or daughter, re-
ceived a double portion of the in
heritance, the remainder being equal
ly divided among the others. And
so rigid was the enactment, that even
in the case of a man with two wives,
the one beloved and the other hated,
if a child of the hated wife was the
first born, the father had no power
to dispossess him OF his double por-
ton. By the jubilee ordinance,
which did not apply to houses in
towns, all alienated lands reverted,
on the fiftieth year, to the legal heir,
who may be said to have been the
heir of entail. These two provisions,
instead of Matchmaking land, as some
people say, individualized it; aud
the severest denunciations were pro-
nounced against those who in any
way attempted to dispossess a man of
the inheritance Of his fathers"
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-10
FROM THE PEOPLE.
Europeap-Ans, lean Postal Service.


To the Editors Of the Appeal:
HOLLY SPRINGS, MISS, April g.
Nearly every American who sets his
or her foot upon European soil feels in
duty bound to have his or her expe-
rience put in print 10 some papers. |,
a European, take the liberty only in
this particular case to put my ex.
perience with your international
postal service before the public
through the columns Of your widely
circulating paper, begging for kind
explanation from some person In this
great and free country who is able
to give me one. About the 9th of
November last | sent paper box to
Colonies, France, containing small
branch of cotton with about halt a
dozen bolls and one blossom, wishing
to show to my friends how cotton
grows in this country. The box was
of the size directed by the postmas-
ter of Holly Springs as complying
with postal requirement. He re-
ceived It and sent it off after putting
the necessary postage stamps on it,
twenty-three cents. About the end
of January my friend at Colonies
received letter from the New York
postoffice, notifying him Tin English,
so that he had to get some
one to translate it for him) that
box directed to him was at
New York, and would be forwarded
if he would send 9 francs Isl 80).
He went to the general postoffice at
Paris (Columbes is three miles from
Paris), willing and ready to pay the
8 fraacs, stating at the same time
what the contents Of the box would
be. The Paris officials thereupon
advised him not to send the money,
as they feared additional charges
would be made before the box would
ever reach him. The postmaster at
Holly Springs has written twice to
New York, asking for the reason of
this strange proceeding, but no at
tention was paid to his letters. |
therefore request the kind assistance
of your readers to get a satisfactory
explanation of the above stated facts.
A FOREIGNER.
The postmaster at Holly Springs
should forward the facts in this case
to the Postmaster General at Wash
ington. That is the place, and the
only place, to get satisfactory an
swer.-EDs. APPEAL.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-10
SUPERSTITIONS.

One of Mrs. McLane's hens, near
Thompson, Ca, laid an unusually
large egg short time ago, on which,
it is declared, wss written in startling
capital letters the inscription, "Terri-
hle Earthquake in March" The news
OF the omen flew around among the
negroes with great lapidity, and in.
tense excitement prevailed. Prayer
NEE ings were held in cabins. Peo-
pie confessed their sins to one another
and an alarming state of mental de.
preston and religious feryor obtained
among macy of the blacks. 1t is now
su poted that the mysterious irscrip-
ton was the work of young man
emp Dyed on Mrs. McLane's farm.
Faux VIM, precoc.ous young co..
ored boy Of Dallas, Tex, has shown
considerable inventive skill, and many
OF the more s1psrstitious OF his
race think that he is in league
with the devil. Last week some of
the credulous blacks tried to rout sa-
ian out of the young inventors dwell
ing by mailing up The door and sus-
pending before il. strands OF bair tied
around bits of broken glass. To cir CHI
the argument with the back fiend,
they tackled a horseshoe on the Intel
of the door aud attached a precious
rabbits foot to the knob.
A negro cook at Athens, Ga, had a
severe a tack of rheumatism In the
back not long ago, and called in YOU
doc doctor to treat him. The voudoo
man said that his patient was under
the malign influence of the enemy,
and, going out into the yard, he re-
turned with piece of red fl innel tied
in the middle OF blus string, which
he declared to be the cause Of all the
trouble. The offending cloth was
burntd in the sick room 10 the ac-
com pan iment of weird meant atoms, TIT
pat ent said he was much better, and
the doctor, having received his proper
fee, departed.
A little negro girl Of Calhoun, Ga +,
goes up into the mountaiDs every day
or two and talks, no she says, with an
obiging angel, who tells her great
many mysterious secrets. The black
people place great deal Of confidence
in her revelations, and await her COM
ing and goirg with anxious interest,
Her latest piece of infor alton is that
the town will be visited by cyclone,
following close on the heels OF dis
astrous earthquake, before the year is
out, and will be totally destroyed.
A Justice OF the Peace in a West
Virginia village recently fined fish
erman heavily for insisting, in the
course OF trial before the sapient
Magistrate, that the moon had some-
thing TO do with the ebb aud flow Of
tidaE
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WE n wO.

What is lifef ashland your
No who have known its joys and sOrrows.
Its sullon and its fair tomofrOwI;
We wto have thought 4 rcr'ect day
And a'len taintlug ny the way
What use Is life to us-ws twJ?
What use 10 lover 1 ashland your
We who have reve'ed in its blisses,
Drunk our elves drunk with its kisses,
And seen It's dawn melt into light,
Leaving behind but baleful blight;
VIVA. use Is love to us-wo twof
What use are friendsH ashland youf
We have tested T. ON together
In sunshine aud in rainy weather,
And find few left whom storms purtend,
And none TO stand fast to tho end;
What use arc friends to us-we twof
What use is hope3 ashland your
We who, through many stern denials
And sickoning pa and piteous t,inls.
Have kissed the threshold of the world
To find IL still but long deferred
What use is hope TO US we twoH
What use Ia faith2 Mk-and your
We who have toiled and wrought and
strived,
And failed, and prayed to be forgiven.
And watched and waited everywhere,
But heard no answer TO our prayer;
What use 10 faith to us-we twOt
Snail we then give up life-we two2
If we shall fall faintlng by the way
There cometh yet n perfect day;
We need both sal and bright tom OrrOws,
joys would not be JOYS without sorrows;
will not give Mp lite-will your
Shall we thon give up loyes-we two3
| IL II goes on in o baleful light,
The morning felloweth the night;
| There are yet left Tor US its kisses
| If We but cherish we'll its blisBes;
] will not give up lovo-wiil your
Shall We then give up friends--we twot
We have not waited till tho end
For those who stand whom storms portend
Mayhap In clear and cloudy weather
They'll rise and tail with us together;
l will not give up friends-will your
Shall we then Rivo up hope-we twof
We may yot pass, though long deferred,
The threshold Of that gracious world,
And and, through many pains and trials,
Made glorious all our stern denials;
will not give up hopo-wiil you'll
Shall we then give up iaith-ws two1
IL we wait patiently our prayer
Will soon ho answered everywhere;
For failure we may bs forRiven,
Since humbly we have tOiled and striven
| will nos give up faith-will your
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array
which struck chez up0a the day,
A cheer which would botRo away
Grant had not these. But he GER
tainly had good deal Of the charao-
ter and qualities which we so justly
respect 10 the Duke of Wellington.
Wholly free from show, parade and
pomposity; sensible and sagacious;
scanning closely the situation, seeing
things as they actually were, then
making up his mind as to the right
thing TO be done under the circum-
stances and doing it; never furried,
never vacillatiDg, but also not stub
born, able to reconsider and change
his plans, a man Of resource; when,
however, he had really fixed on the
best course to take. the right nail to
drive, resolutely and tenaciously per-
severing, driving the nail hard no IN
Grant was all this, and surely in
all this he resembles the Duke of
Wellinoton